NEWS FROM THE JRF

You’re invited!
The JRF 2010 Convention 
November 11-14, 2010 
Newport Beach, California
Registration will open in July, 2010.
For more information, please visit www.jrf.org/convention or call Rabbi Erin Hirsh at (215) 885-5601 ext. 16.

The JRF is looking along with the Arava Institute and Hazon for 36 JRF Congregations that will send at least one bicycle rider to Bike Ride from Jerusalem to Eilat to support peace and the environment in Israel. Agudas Achim would like to be one of those congregations. Join the Arava Institute-Hazon Israel Ride October 19- 26, 2010 and ride from Jerusalem to Eilat. From the seat of your bike you will smell, taste, hear, see, and feel the land of Israel in a way you have never experienced. You will learn from the Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian alumni and students from the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (www.arava.org) who also participate in the Ride, as well as from Arava Institute faculty and Hazon speakers.

The work of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies fits into so many values of the Reconstructionist Judaism reflecting many of the resolutions the JRF and RRA have passed on the Environment, Peace in the Middle East, and Israel. You will return to Ahavas Achim with the ability to share deeper insights into these critical and important issues to our community.

If you decide that you want to go on the Ride we as a community will help you raise the $3,500 to $4,000 to participate in the Ride to support the work of the Arava Institute.
For more information go to www.hazon.org and click on Israel Ride or contact our Vermont neighbor and colleague Rabbi Michael M. Cohen (RRC '90), who has worked for the Arava Institute since it opened its doors in 1996 and has done the ride three times and is also planning on doing the Ride this Fall. He can be reached at aravakolot@yahoo.com or (802) 362-2432. 

The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation website at: http://www.jrf.org/

Tikkun resources in our JRF Resource Library
http://www2.jrf.org/resources/jrf_resources.php?tid=3:6&show=#Tikkun%20Olam.Contact JRF
JRF Main phone number: 215-885-5601.
The new JRF FAX number is: 215-885-5603

The JRF's central office mailing address is:
Beit Devora
101 Greenwood Ave. Suite 430
Jenkintown, PA 19046

Various Listserves to join... go to http://www.jrf.org/listserves for sign up!